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Known For

Al Franken is known for:

  • The Manchurian Candidate
    Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
  • Trading Places
    A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
  • Stuart Saves His Family
    A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.

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Biography

Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.